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WI 21-22 Completed Tasks
10.6 NYE CountdownThe Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
+10 Task: Time
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 360
10.9 Discovery (Bea's Task via Tien)For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education by Christopher Emdin
+10 Task: continuing to study the changes needed in education
+. 5 Combo: 10.6 NYE Countdown (Hour)
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 375
15.3 CiV 10Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell
+25 Task N-O, 341-380/741-780 pages, and 2008-2022
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 400
20.4 Day of the JackalThe Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 375
20.8 Dead Sea (Ed's Task)Heiress on Fire (Indigo #1) by Kellie McCourt
author's initials, KM, found in Khirbat quMran
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.3 - 99% Australia; 10.7 - mystery & cultural)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 545
20.7 John AdamsThe Absentee by Maria Edgeworth
pub. 1812
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.7 - cultural & historical)
+10 Aged
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 580
10.3 LocationApples Never Fall. Liane Moriarty set in Australia
+10 task
+10 combo (10.7- cultural/mystery, 20.4)
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 200
10.2;10.3;10.4;10.5;10.6;10.7;10.8;10.9
20.1;20.7;
20.7 John AdamsThe Dedicated by Willa Gibbs
+20 task (Jenner lived 1749-1823)
+ 5 combo (20.2)
+10 aged (1917–1999)
Task total=35
Season total=375
20.4 Day of the JackalThe Curator by M.W. Craven
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo (10.6 hour)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 200
10.4 - Vocation A Novel Way to Die by Ali Brandon
+10 Task
+10 Combo [20.4; 20.8]
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 185
10.1 List Lovers1001 list
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
10 task
15 combo 10.2, 20.8, 20.10
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25
Running total: 360
10.7 Genre-RichThe Readers' Room by Antoine Laurain
+10 Task (Mystery & Cultural)
+10 Lost in Translation (translated from French
Task total = 20
Grand total = 65
20.8 Dead SeaBrighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry
Lexile 880
20 pts 20.8 Dead Sea
10 pts Aged
Task total. 30 pts
Total Season: 280 pts
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… 20.2 … 20.4 20.5 … …20.8 20.9 20.10
15.1 15.2 … … … … … … …
20.8 Dead Sea (Ed's Task)Journey to the Stone Country by Alex Miller
author's initials, AM, found in quMrAn
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.3 - 100% Australia; 10.6 - hour found in jOURney to tHe stone country; 10.7 - cultural & historical)
+10 Aged
Post Total: 45
Season Total: 625
Really slow start to this challenge this season probably means I will not go for a finish. But I love this task:10.1 List Lovers
Are you trying to read all the Pulitzer Prize winning novels? Working your way through the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die? Choose your list wisely – you must use the same list each time you repeat this task. Don’t forget to state your chosen list when claiming points for this task. This task cannot be used for combo points.
This is my list: https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/u... Bram Stoker Winners and Nominees, 2021.
If that link does not come through, google Bram Stoker Awards 2021 and click on the link "Winners and Nominees":
The categories that will work for this challenge are:
Best Novel
Best First Novel
Young Adult Novel
Fiction Collection (Single Author)
Anthology (Multiple Authors)
Non-Fiction
None of the Long Fiction (Novellas) nominees were over 100 pages, so they do not qualify. (Some years ALL of the long fiction awards are over 100-120 pages, bu not 2021.)
My first read:
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
This book, the winner of Best Novel, is what drew me to this list. I am hoping to get a lot more read.
Task Points: 10
Combo: 20.4: 5
Previous Points: 20
Total Points So Far: 35
10.1 List LoversI read this book earlier in the year, but I just finished a re-read. It's that good.
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia nominee for best novel on Bram Stoker 2021 list.
Task Points: 10
Combo: 10.7 Mystery and Historical, 20.4: 10
Previous Points: 35
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 55
20.5 Wheels Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence.Task Points: 20
Combo Points: 20.9 = 5
Previous Points: 55
Season Total: 80
20.10 Pulp (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)The Best of Robert E. Howard: Crimson Shadows by Robert E. Howard.
Combo: 20.8 = 5
Jumbo: 503 pp = 5
Previous Points: 80
Points This Post: 30
Season Total: 110
20.4 ThrillerDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
+20 task
+10 combo (10.6 HOUR, 10.7 mystery and cultural)
+10 lost in translation
Task total = 40
Grand total = 105
Post 228 Ed wrote: "10.2 ShortHotel Silence by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
149p.
Task=10
LiT=10
Post Total =20
Grand Total=65"
Ed, I feel terrible about this. The MPE for this title is 214 pages. This edition: Hotel Silence, not the Kindle edition you linked. I do not see another place for it.
Task 15.3{V-W-X-Y-Z} {341-380/741-780} {1978-1992}
Hearts (1980) by Hilma Wolitzer (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 368 pages)
+25 Task
Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 130 + 25 = 155
20.9 Madame BovaryHelen Frankenthaler Prints by Ruth E. Fine
Art book no styles
20 pts 20.9 Madame Bovary
Task total. 20 pts
Total Season: 300 pts
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… 20.2 … 20.4 20.5 … …20.8 20.9 20.10
15.1 15.2 … … … … … … …
15.5 CiVFire from Heaven by Mary Renault
+35 Task P-Q-R, 341-380/741-780 pages and 1963-1977
Points this post: 35
RwS total: -
CoA total: 125
Season Total: 125
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15.6 CiVSchindler's List by Thomas Keneally
+45 Task I-J-K, 421-460/821-860 pages and 1978-1992
Points this post: 45
RwS total: -
CoA total: 170
Season Total: 170
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15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 .... .... .... ....
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20.8 Dead SeaAlbert Savarus by Honoré de Balzac
+20 Task HB
+15 Combo 10.2, 10.7 cultural/historical, 20.9
+10 LiT
Post Total: 45
Season Total: 420
In post #118 I claimed a book for 15.3. I would like to move it to ...20.2 The Keys to the Kingdom
The Little Company by by Eleanor Dark
+20 Task
+10 Combo 10.3 set in Australia, 10.6 time,
+10 aged
Post Total: 40 less 25 claimed for 15.3
Season Total: 435
10.1 List LoversList: Best Historical Mystery
Blind Justice by Bruce Alexander
+10 Task
+20 Combo (10.7 - historical/mystery), 20.2 (3563/1994), 20.4, 20.8
+10 Aged (1932-2003)
Task total = 40
Season total = 430
10.5 ZaneJoe Pepper by Elmer Kelton
+10 task
+10 combo (20.2, 20.9-Pepper)
+10 aged (1926–2009)
Task total=30
Season total=405
20.2 The Keys to the KingdomJoan Makes History (Singer family #3) by Kate Grenville
pub 1988 | 272 ratings
+20 Task
+15 Combo (10.3 - 100% Australia; 10.6 - time found in joan MakEs hIsTory; 10.7 - cultural & historical)
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 660
15.5 Christmas in Vegas 10The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
P-Q-R, 341-380/741-780, 2008-2022
35 task
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35
Running total: 395
10.9 Discovery One of my interests is acting/theatre
The Playwrights' Center Monologues for Women by Kristen Gandrow
+10 Task
+5 Combo 10.6 NYE - TIME
Task Total: 15 pts
20.1 Maid in WaitingPrince of Chaos by Roger Zelazny
+20 Task Chronicles of amber #10
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 455
20.4 Day of the JackalPostern of Fate (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries #5) by Agatha Christie
+20 Task
+10 Aged
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 690
15.2 CiV 10At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
+20 Task N-O, 141-180/541-580 pages (562), and 1993-2007
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 245
10.1A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell
YA, no styles
List: ATY 2022 Author with 2 sets of double letters
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
+10 Task
Season total = 25
20.6 Hidden FiguresThe Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
❄️ Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (1997) ❄️
+20 Task
+ 5 Combo [10.6 - watch]
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 210
20.9 Madame Bovary (Kate S's Task)Merry and Bright. Debbie Macomber
The title refers to the characters Merry Knight and Jayson Bright
+20 task
+5 combo (10.6-Time)
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 225
10.2;10.3;10.4;10.5;10.6;10.7;10.8;10.9
20.1;20.7;20.9
20.4 Day of the JackalShadows in Bronze (Marcus Didius Falco #2) by Lindsey Davis
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.7 - mystery & historical)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 715
20.5 WheelsThe Night Manager by John le Carré
+20 Task
+10 Combo 10.6 – time, 20.4
+5 Jumbo 597 pages
+10 Aged
Post Total: 45
Season Total: 500
10.6 CountdownThe Girl from the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat
+10 Task second
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 510
10.7 Genre-RichThe Siege by Helen Dunmore
(Historical fiction and Cultural>Russia)
Task total: 10
Season total: 160
20.2 Keys to KingdomPassage to Samoa by Day Keene
20 pts 20.2 Keys to Kingdom
5 pts 10.2 Short
Task total. 25 pts
Total Season: 325 pts
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… 20.2 … 20.4 20.5 … …20.8 20.9 20.10
15.1 15.2 … … … … … … …
Task 20.9 Kate S's TaskRead a book with a surname in the title (not sub-title). The surname must refer to a character in the book.
Mr. Stone is the main character in the novel
TIME = mr. sTonE and the knIghts coMpanion
Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion (1963) by V.S. Naipaul (Paperback, 128 pages)
+20 Task
+15 Combo (#10.2 Short, #10.6 “time”, #20.2 ratings 5K or fewer 1901-2000)
+10 Aged (age 75 or greater)
Task Total: 20 + 15 + 10 = 45
Grand Total: 155 + 45 = 200
20.9 Madame Bovary (Kate S's Task)Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
+20 Task
Post Total: 20
Season Total: 735
20.1 Maid in WaitingSweep in Peace (Innkeeper Chronicles #2) by Ilona Andrews
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.8 - author's initials, IA, found in khIbAt)
Post Total: 25
Season Total: 760
10.8 Singles (Rosemary's Task)Neverhome by Laird Hunt
+10 Task
Points this post: 10
RwS total: 10
CoA total: 170
Season Total: 180
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+10 Task: National Book Awards 2021
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+. 5 Combo: 10.7 Genre-Rich (Historical + Cultural)
+15 Jumbo (816)
Post Total: 30
Season Total: 350